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Negroid   Listen
adjective
Negroid  adj.  
1.
Characteristic of the negro.
2.
Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who resemble the negro.





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"Negroid" Quotes from Famous Books



... engaged in exploring those monuments, has published in the North American Review for December, 1880, photographs of a number of idols exhumed at San Juan de Teotihuacan, from which I select the following strikingly negroid faces: ...
— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly
... in those museums. I am not ashamed to confess that I never darkened their doors. Life is short, and while the Artist revels in his subjects, I find more interest in studying the living Monegasques than their—and our—negroid ancestors. ...
— Riviera Towns • Herbert Adams Gibbons
... distinguishes four principal types of mankind, the Australioid, Negroid, Mongoloid, and Xanthochroic, adding a fifth variety, the Melanochroic. The special points of the Australioid are a chocolate-brown skin, dark brown or black eyes, black hair (usually wavy), narrow (dolichocephalic) skull, brow-ridges strongly developed, projecting jaw, coarse lips ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris


Words linked to "Negroid" :   Black race, nigra, colored person, someone, Black person, pickaninny, mortal, individual, spade, black, Black man, picaninny, darkey, negro, nigga, Negro race, Uncle Tom, blackamoor, darky


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